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St. Peter's Square is seen behind a barricade erected at the edge of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, in Rome, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Andrew Medichini/AP via Crux)

Rome reopens churches after pope cautions against taking ‘drastic measures’

Elise Ann Allen|Mar 13, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis celebrates Mass March 12, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. At the beginning of the liturgy, the pope encouraged people to pray for their government leaders, who must make difficult decisions to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: Governments need prayers to make hard decisions for common good

Carol Glatz|Mar 12, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis leads the general audience from his library in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 11, 2020. With precautions continuing to combat the coronavirus, the audience went forward without the usual crowds but was broadcast live on television and streamed on the internet. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Christ's Gospel can satisfy hunger, thirst for justice, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 11, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis offers Mass in Casa Santa Marta on March 11, 2020. (Vatican Media/CNA

Faith

Pope Francis offers Mass for prisoners after Italian prison riots

Courtney Mares|Mar 11, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis is pictured on a video monitor in St. Peter's Square as he leads the Angelus from his library in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 8, 2020. As a precaution to avoid spread of the coronavirus, the pope's Sunday Angelus was broadcast on television and displayed on monitors in St. Peter's Square. After leading the Angelus through video the pope said he wanted to see the crowd in "real time" and came to the window of his studio to greet people in the square. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

After leading 'virtual' Angelus, pope blesses crowd in St. Peter's Square

Cindy Wooden|Mar 8, 2020|4 Min Read

Syrian children sit on the ground at a makeshift camp in Qatmah Feb. 17, 2020. The Sept. 27 celebration of World Day of Migrants and Refugees will emphasize people displaced within their own countries. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)

World

Vatican announces theme for 2020 World Day of Migrants and Refugees

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 6, 2020|2 Min Read

World Youth Day pilgrims from Honduras and Costa Rica take selfies with the skyline of Panama City in the background on Jan. 20, 2019. The fast-paced nature of the digital age can cause young men and women to focus more on capturing moments for their social media rather than experiencing them, Pope Francis said in his message for World Youth Day 2020. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)

Faith

Live life, don't squander it, pope tells young people

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 5, 2020|3 Min Read

Viktor Vasnetsov's "The Last Judgment," 1904. (Wikimedia Commons)

Faith

Four last things: A Lenten reflection on judgment

Mike Aquilina|Mar 4, 2020|8 Min Read

A ship sails on the Gulf of Thailand during sunset at Ko Samui March 3, 2020. Saying he wanted to renew his "urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis," Pope Francis asked Catholics around the globe to participate in the international observance of "Laudato Si' Week" May 16-24. (CNS photo/Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters)

Pope Francis announces Laudato si' Week to take place in May

Courtney Mares|Mar 3, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis coughs as he leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 1, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

Pope Francis does not have coronavirus, Italian media reports

Hannah Brockhaus|Mar 3, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis coughs as he leads the Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 1, 2020. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Citing cold, pope skips Lenten retreat with Curia

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 2, 2020|2 Min Read

Faithful wear surgical masks as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis outside the Santa Sabina Basilica on the occasion of the Ash Wednesday Mass opening Lent, the forty-day period of abstinence and deprivation for Christians before Holy Week and Easter, in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Pope Francis celebrated the Ash Wednesday ritual kicking off the Catholic Church's Lenten season in traditional fashion, while other Masses in northern Italy were canceled over fears of the new coronavirus. (Gregorio Borgia/AP via Crux)

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Coronavirus causes delay in Italian economic conference Pope’s scheduled to attend

Inés San Martín|Mar 2, 2020|3 Min Read

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